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 784 CONVENTION WITH BELGIUM; Dmcnmnmt 5, 1868. years, counting from the day of the tir de Yéchange des ratmcations, exchange of the ratifications, which lesquelles seront données conforshall be made in conformity with mément aux constitutions respecthe respective constitutions of the tives des deux pays, et échangées two countries, and exchanged at a Bruxelles, dans le délai de six Brussels within the period of six mois ou plus tot si faire se peut. months, or sooner if possible. In Dans le cas ou aucune des parties case neither party gives notice, n’aurait notifié, douze mois avant twelve months after the expiration Pexpiration de la dite période de dix of the said period of ten years, of ans, son intention de ne pas renouits intention not to renew this con- »veler cette convention, celle-ci convention, it shall remain in force one tinuera a rester en vigueur encore year longer, and so on from year to une année et ainsi de suite d’annee year, until the expiration of a year en année, jusqu’a Pexpiration d’une from the day on which one of the anneé a partir du jour ou l’une ou parties shall have given such notice. l’autre des parties l’aura dénonoée. In faith whereof the respective En foi de quoi les plénipoten— plenipotentiaries have signed this tiaires respectifs 1’ont signée et y convention, and have hereunto af- ont apposé leurs cachets. fixed their seals. Execution. Done at Brussels, in duplicate, Fait a Bruxelles, le cinquieme the fifth day of December, eighteen jour du mois de Déoembre mil huit hundred and sixty-eight. cent soixante·huit. H. S. SANFORD. sums varmnn srxcnnnnn. [smh.] [sun,.] And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications have been exchanged: Proclamation Now, therefore, be it known that I, Umrssns S. GRANT, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof} may be observed and fuliilled in good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be atlixed. Done in the city of Washington, this seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of [sean.] the Independence of the United States the ninety-fourth. U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hnmuxrou Frsx-1, Secretary of State.